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Post by duets on Mar 23, 2011 19:15:00 GMT -5
Who posted that 1800's polygamists gave women the right to vote? Or something like that. I think Barbs church is going to be open to a woman's choice and if that choice is a plural marriage, then so be it. And if it's not, then that is fine too. The ?guy @ the state building stated that women were given the right to vote within the LDS population ever before it became a law in general society. Another poster remarked about this. I came back & stated that Joseph Smith was in the process (unfinished) of running for US Pres. I would think that, that is why the women's vote was approved back then in order to vote in an LDS US Pres. There's power in numbers & every vote was crucial
I agree w/you that Barb's church will be one that gives women a choice, each to their own choosing.
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Post by paleskinbeauty on Mar 23, 2011 19:57:19 GMT -5
Across the United States, women DID vote, in the more rual areas long before the 1920 Amendment.
Not just the polygamist women. But honestly it was in more rual areas where women were often equal partners in their husbands farms.
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Post by Smoke on the Water on Mar 23, 2011 20:12:15 GMT -5
I'd think her church would address the worst abuses associated with compound-style polygamy: - No underage sealings and marriages - Mutual consent of all persons involved (no Joy Books) - Prohibit assignment and reassignment of wives - No forced removal of males (Lost Boys) - The church exists for the common benefit of its members, not some all-powerful, self-appointed "prophet."
Combined with access to modern education, changing these conditions would make polygamy at least not as objectionable to the rest of society.
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